100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts Airfield Tour - Part 2
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Part 1 - • 100th Bomb Group, Thor...
This is the second of a two part video, taking a tour around the old airfield. Most of the pictures and video, date from around 1994. As a result, the pictures are mostly scanned prints, and the 4:3 format video, has been converted a couple of time, from the original VHS magnetic tape.
Part two, takes us around the accommodation sites, the main communal site, the bomb dump, the Western and Northern sides of the airfield. Check out the on screen link at the end for a fly-over of the airfield, taken in 1997.
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Thank you for this gift. I am an historian and it is nice to have an historic narration for the tour. It is amazing how fast nature takes back over once abandoned.
Brilliant video thank you best video on the subject thanks si
Just finished reading 'luck of the draw', a book by Frank Murphy, a navigator with the 100BG who flew from Thorpe Abbotts and was shot down in October 1943.
Excellent read, would definitely recommend.
Back in the 1990s, I wrote to several veterans about B-17 "Hang The Expense" and also met several guys at the Thorpe Abbotts reunions. The stories they told would have made hollywood films look tame! Amazing guys.
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Mr Murphy was shot down in Aw-R-Go.
8 POW
2 KIA.
@@century_bombersWhich one? Valesh got through about eight of them from what I’ve read. 😉
@@Iceni_Paul Frank flew 14 B-17s, but only two carried the name Hang The Expense - #035 & #560
@@century_bombers we must be getting conflicting info, according to Harry Crosby’s accounts in ‘Wing and a prayer’ he’d got up to Hang the Expense 7. Looking in the back of the Century Bombers book, I could only see Hang The Expense 1 and 3 listed. Confusing isn’t it?
Great video Thank you!
I work 5 miles from Thorpe Abbotts. One of these days I'll call in. Interesting watch.
Great video, I live just 10 miles away and visit every summer when the museum is open for a brew and a chat. Can anyone access the areas you did or is it private property? I spoke with a lady from the museum a couple of years ago who said they were trying to start walking tours of the site, not sure if they ever did
@doc8178 Thanks. Most of the airfield is private property. For this trip, the museum chairman took a friend and myself around.
I've visited a few of these sites in the past, thanks for making such an detailed record of what some of the structures we found were as we weren't too sure at the time. Really appreciated the time you put into making this 😊👍
Excellent
Thank you for all the work you did to show this historic airfield. Hopefully there will be a demand for a community airfield. Generally the number of airfields keeps decreasing.
Excellent video, nice to see what the Orlit hut looked like before the vandals got to it, it’s in a very sorry state now sadly. Who do you need to speak to regarding permission to explore what’s left? As I would like to see the stuff over on the western side of the airfield for myself one day, before it’s gone forever.
You would need to speak to the museum curator, who I think is still Ron Batley, who took me around the site.